Effective diffusivity of a periodic sinusoidal shear
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For a passive scalar transported by with transverse period , positive diffusivity and periodic , let be the unique periodic solution of . A multiple-scale expansion has first corrector . Averaging the next-order equation over the space-time cell gives the displayed longitudinal diffusion coefficient. Averaging proves the second form. This is a long-time, long-wavelength effective equation, after transverse and periodic transients have decayed, rather than an exact finite-time closure for arbitrary concentrations.
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